NASA Wallops to Support Sounding Rocket Launch

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This September 2024 aerial photograph shows the coastal launch range at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Wallops is the agency’s only owned-and-operated launch range.

Courtesy Patrick J. Hendrickson; used with permission

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is scheduled to support the launch of a suborbital sounding rocket for the Department of Defense during a launch window that runs 1:45 to 6:30 p.m. EDT each day from Sept. 26 to 30. 

No real-time launch status updates will be available and the launch will not be livestreamed. 

The rocket launch may be visible from the Chesapeake Bay region.

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Sep 25, 2024

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